--- title: Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Af… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa. Which biome is it? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa. Which biome is it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** see, be · **To what, where:** Lions, wide grassy plain, biome This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:1 # text = Lions, zebras and acacia trees are seen on a wide grassy plain in Africa. 1 Lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · passive | | Lions and zebras and acacia trees | | a wide grassy plain in Africa | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. *Sentence 2:* Which biome is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:2 # text = Which biome is it? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 biome biome NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | biome | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Desert ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:o1:1 # text = Desert 1 Desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Rainforest ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:o2:1 # text = Rainforest 1 Rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Savanna ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:o3:1 # text = Savanna 1 Savanna Savanna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Polar land ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t8:o4:1 # text = Polar land 1 Polar polar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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